Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry

…This matters directly: the tree is hosted on a 23andMe-linked MyHeritage site. It was not an isolated match Three Barry–Booyzen unions across three generations — a fourth, which this archive previously counted, turned out to be the same marriage entered twice.…

…4 Nov 1838 Cradock and Johanna Margaritha Pretorius — DOCUMENTED, named by the 1870 Doop Register and by nothing else 4 Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen parentage DOCUMENTED by two registers; farmer in 1879, mason in 1905; died of a stomach ulcer 4 May 1851, achter Sneeuberg — DOCUMENTED 13 Sep 1905, Indwe — DOCUMENTED Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry (1859–1940), m. 22 Dec 1879 3 George Downing Mountjoy Booyzen S.A.R. & H.; married his first cousin once removed 1 Jun 1901, Cape Province 11 Dec 1947, Forest Hill — buried West Park 14 Dec Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius (1906–1944), m.…

…Fatal George Kolbe died in 1844 and Margaret Downing in 1867. Neither can be in a photograph taken in the late 1870s. Probably their son George Augustus Kolbe (b. 1836) and his wife — the repeated forename is the obvious route by which the caption went astray. → Kathleen Mary Barry (Booysen) Listed in the tree as a sister of Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry, also married to a Booysen, with no dates. Resolved RESOLVED by John Barry's 1915 death notice, which lists only ONE Barry daughter married to a Boyson. The arithmetic closes: 8 surviving + 2 predeceased + 1 duplicate = the tree's 11. They are the same woman. → John Augustus Barry I — date of death THREE dates.…

…South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869–1954 · 1:1:736J-96W2 , film 007731503 image 01056 . Johannesburg Cemetery Records · 1:1:6N1B-JVP9 and 1:1:6J3R-2Q1R . Read 13 September 2026. 1940 · Grave 9760 — where Kathleen Barry actually is This archive has carried the great-great-grandmother of the line as Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry, 1859–1940 — two years and nothing else. The City of Johannesburg Register of Persons Buried at New Cemetery gives the day, the section and the number of the grave. CITY OF JOHANNESBURG · REGISTER OF PERSONS BURIED AT NEW CEMETERY. Name, age in years months and days, sex, date of burial, section, grave number, remarks. Late August to December 1940, about forty burials to the page.…

…Three are missing and this archive cannot name one of them. The Barrys 9 children John Augustus Barry II James Henry Barry · c. 1847 – 23 Jun 1939 George Augustus Barry Hendrik Nicholaas Barry Frederick Fortunatus Barry Richard Peter Barry Margaret Mary Bedford Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · 1859 – 1940 (the direct line) Kathleen Mary Barry Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe Petrus c. 21 Sep 1788 – 1 Sep 1876 · Anna 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 On whose word the family tree Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet, on the family tree. She died before March 1825 and he died a widower in 1876, so at least one later marriage is missing from this row.…

…His father died of a stomach ulcer at Indwe in 1905. FamilySearch indexes the age as 44; the form says 47 and the burial register agrees with the form. Read the image, not the index — the third time today. 13 Sep 2026 Found Grave 9760 A direct-line ancestor has had two bare years on this site since it was built: Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry, 1859–1940. The City of Johannesburg burial register gives the rest — buried 6 SEPTEMBER 1940 at the New Cemetery (Brixton), aged 82, section D.R., GRAVE 9760. It is the first grave number this archive has for anybody, and it is one a family could walk to.…

…A christening named her in the end — the oldest open question on this site, answered by a baptism rather than a death. The second wife, named → 22 December 1879 Lady Grey Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen & Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry a record read here He signs as a BOER. The signature on this register is the one this archive has spent most of its time arguing about: is the letter a z or an s? The name → 8 October 1888 Dordrecht Hercules Johannes Mountjoy & Maria Sophia van Niekerk a record read here Twenty-two and twenty.…

…Four generations of women, across three surnames Catherine Maria Sophia A Barry name that outlives the Barry surname by eighty years. Who When What they are to the name Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 1859–1940 The last Barry of the surname in this line. She married a Booyzen in 1879. Catharina Maria Sophia Booysen 1891–1946 Baptised at Barkly Oost, “named for her mother entire”. She married a Daschner at Indwe. Catherine Mary Sophia Daschner a major by 1942 Her eldest daughter — the third of the name, and the second surname it has crossed.…

…Three generations of a name that came into this family with one marriage. The Rustenburg register Namesakes Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry also written Booyzen, Catherine M.S. (1940 burial register) Documented 13 mentions 1859 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 His wife, married 22 Dec 1879. Recorded at her death as a Military Pensioner. Buried on 6 SEPTEMBER 1940 at the City of Johannesburg NEW CEMETERY — Brixton — aged 82, in the DUTCH REFORMED section, GRAVE 9760.…

…a record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Rogue Luis Armando Lerena with: Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerona record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 Roque Luis Armanda Lerena with: Antoinette Septima Lynette Lerena record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 BARRY 21 Name What the source says Source Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry reconstructed 1859 · 1940, Johannesburg — buried 6 Sep, New Cemetery, grave 9760 no public link reconstructed by this archive Cornelia Herculena Petronella Barry reconstructed 21 Dec 1909, Cherryville, Barkly East no public link reconstructed by this archive Dorothea Regina Barry reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Dorothea Regina Barry of Slang River reconstructed 11 Jan…

…Petrus Jacobus Booysen Gerthardus Lodewikus Booysen Rustenburg Brakfontein 22 Dec 1879 Document Willem Hermanus Booyzen, boer of Lady Grey, marries Kathleen Barry He is a farmer here and a mason at his death. Something takes the land away in between. Willem Hermanus “William Henry” Booyzen Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry Lady Grey 4 Jan 1882 Document A nephew named for an uncle who had nine years to live Hendrik Stephanus Nicolaas Booyen born, baptised at Rustenburg on 30 January; father Ockert Johannes Stephanus Booysen, mother Elisabetta Johanna Sophia Myburgh. His uncle of the same name was twenty and would die at Brakfontein in 1891. The nephew lived until 1959 and outlived him by sixty-eight years.…

…Not Known.” Written 1840, thirteen years after he died. Anna Catharina Sleer 1787 – 1885 Anna Catharina Sleer · 1787 – 1885 · also married Willem Hermanus Pieterzen Catherine M. S. “Kathleen”… 1859 – 1940 Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry · 1859 – 1940 John Augustus Barry I 1819 – 1903 John Augustus Barry I · 1819 – 1903 John Barry 1796 – 1853 John Barry · 1796 – 1853 Disputed One profile holding two men — a Yorkshire farmer of Bilsdale and a man who died at de Bruins Poort. His son's 1903 registration says only: an Irishman, born in Ireland. Margaretha W. E. M.…

…Anna Maria van der Merwe 1785 – bef. Mar 1825 one of the largest Cape families m. 2 Nov 1805, Graaff-Reinet. Her husband was about seventeen. Johanna Catharina Mountjoy 1819–1863 English m. 4 Nov 1838, Cradock. Died at Zevenfontein aged 44. Gives “Mountjoy” to the family. Catherine Maria Sophia “Kathleen” Barry 1859–1940 Irish / English at the Cape m. 22 Dec 1879 in the DRC at Barkly, after banns. Thirteen children. Occupation: Needle Woman. Died at Mayfair, Johannesburg. Anna Johanna Maria Pretorius 1906–1944 Afrikaner — and a Barry granddaughter m. 30 Dec 1924, Vereeniging. Six children. Died at 37 of a ruptured extra-uterine pregnancy. Born 1906, not 1905 as the tree has it.…